Rhesus

Euripides

Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.

  1. Yea, woe to me and woe to thee,
  2. My master! Once to set thine eye
  3. On Ilion the accurst, and die!
LEADER
  1. Ho there! What ally passes? The dim night
  2. Blurreth mine eyes; I cannot see thee right.
VOICE.
  1. Ho, some one of the Trojan name!
  2. Where sleeps your king beneath his shield,
  3. Hector? What marshal of the field
  4. Will hear our tale . . . the men who came
  5. And struck us and were gone; and we,